While it's difficult to tell what exactly is going on here — it appears there is some kind of thong/sports bra situation involved — Lawrence has confirmed in the past that it takes a team of six women a total of seven hours to apply paint to her body for the role.

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Lawrence will reprise her role as Mystique in May's X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to 2011's First Class. As any good nerd knows, Mystique is a shapeshifter whose skin tone is approximately the same color as your tongue after a blueberry Ring Pop. She eventually turns into a totally badass assassin — and I'm going to stop right there because the most important thing here is J.Law in all her blue glory.